A recently published article in the NYPost is asking a pretty straight forward question about America's favorite socialist Barbie doll: does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez live in her district? It certainly doesn't sound like it.
If true, she's not alone - fellow House Financial Committee member Rep Maxine Waters doesn't live in her district either.
She has no district office and no local phone number, unlike the state’s three other freshman members.
And it’s unclear whether the 29-year-old lawmaker, who represents the Bronx and Queens, actually still lives in the Parkchester neighborhood that has been so closely tied to her rise — even though she won her upset victory over fellow Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley with accusations that his home in Virginia made him too Washington-focused to serve his district.
Ocasio-Cortez has used her deceased father’s Bronx condo on her voter registration since 2012, and even posed in the one-bedroom Bronx flat for celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz in a Vogue magazine profile after her stunning November election. But The Post could find little indication she continues to live there.
Okay, but at least AOC isn't trying to avoid discussing the topic of whether or not she lives in her district. Right?
On Saturday night, a staffer promised a Post reporter that Ocasio-Cortez would talk to him after a speaking event in Corona.
During the event, two staffers were seen reading an early edition of this story on their phones.
“Come downstairs, I have to take a picture quick,” the congresswoman then told the reporter after the event, instructing him to wait for her. Twenty minutes later, she ducked out a back door, jumped into a chauffeured SUV, and zoomed off.
What about people who live in AOC's alleged neighborhood? Have any of them seen her walking around?
Ocasio-Cortez was in New York City last weekend and this weekend, with appearances in Queens on both Saturdays — yet she was not seen coming or going from her Parkchester pad either day.
Her apartment’s next-door neighbor said she had never seen Ocasio-Cortez. Another neighbor, who has lived down the hall from the congresswoman’s apartment for the last 40 years, said he’d never seen her or her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, who has claimed the address as his own since last spring.
Oh.
Ocasio-Cortez was in New York City last weekend and this weekend, with appearances in Queens on both Saturdays — yet she was not seen coming or going from her Parkchester pad either day.
Her apartment’s next-door neighbor said she had never seen Ocasio-Cortez. Another neighbor, who has lived down the hall from the congresswoman’s apartment for the last 40 years, said he’d never seen her or her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, who has claimed the address as his own since last spring.
Wow! Being a socialist lawmaker must be great. You get to live in the lap of luxury and everyone treats you like a rock star.
Unfortunately being the socialist lawmaker's constituent has the exact opposite effect. Since taking office AOC has chased 25,000 jobs out of her district with an estimated average salary of over $100,000 a year. This caused real estate value to plummet and it all happened on the heels of the longest government shutdown in American history, which officially began shortly after the Dems took over the House.
Thanks, Leftists!
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